The Fifty Day Movie Challenge – Days 11 – 15

_As young teens, my brother and I went to see a lot of movies, especially during the summer. Remembering the way we would go to the movie theater to go watch a movie on a weekly basis during Summer Vacation is a really easy way to answer the question of “Why do studios insist on cramming the summer with movies?” Because movies are a really easy thing to go do when you’re a young teen and feel like there’s a bunch of stuff you can’t do because you’re underage. Though they used to be cheaper, too…eh. Anyways, there was one summer in particular that I remember very well: 1997. I can look at the movies released that summer and remember going opening weekend to see a bunch. In 6 consecutive weeks, we saw at least 5 new releases: The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Con Air, Speed 2: Cruise Control (lol), Batman and Robin (lol), Face/Off, and Men in Black. We saw a bunch of other movies, but that was a month and a half stretch of seeing movies that, quality-wise, were all over the place, but both of us were super excited to go see. As you might imagine…there was some disappointment that summer =P It was still fun though! If you go back to the beginning of May, there was the first Austin Powers (random note: A big reason we saw it was because my uncle played a stand-in for Burt Bacharach in a scene and my dad and him wanted to see if they could see him in the final cut. You can lol) and The Fifth Element.